Debate Land Public Forum & Lincoln Douglas Rankings

Debate Land is proud to offer comprehensive national circuit rankings for Public Forum and Lincoln-Douglas debate. We believe that by providing comprehensive and transparent rankings, we can foster a more inclusive, legitimate, and competitive debate community. Debate Land uses a proprietary metric of ranking debaters colloquially known as the OTR Score. It awards points based on scaled tournament attendance, high performance (deep elimination round runs), and success against difficult opponents. Every system has flaws, but the OTR 3.0 Score is an open-source metric widely available to debaters.

Last Updated:  

February 03, 2025

1) The first 500 teams are displayed. For full results, see Debate Land.
2) Read our methodology.
3) View results from past years.

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NSD Alumni represent 44 of the top 100 teams in the United States!

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

101

Sanjeev Arora

1.111

102

Ryan Lin

1.107

103

Cathryn Wu

1.105

104

Lucas Chritah

1.093

105

Cameron Buhl

1.088

106

Rory Baskin

1.076

107

Upton Ta-Beadle

1.070

109

Anya Pathak

1.067

111

Joyce Xiao

1.043

112

Gabriel Whangbo-Olvera

1.038

113

Pranav Narra

1.036

114

Diya Venkataragavan

1.023

115

Michelle Lee

1.022

116

Shrihan Thangam

1.022

117

Amandeep Manda

1.017

118

Cooper Halpern

1.013

119

Jeffery Wei

1.009

120

Paul Buermann

1.007

121

Vanessa Xu

1.006

122

Alina Diaz

1.005

123

Navid Sheybani

1.002

124

Sami Shapiro

0.993

125

Vincent Wang

0.978

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NSD Alumni represent 48 of the top 100 teams in the United States!

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

201

Hans Jhamb & Adhhrith Nagrath

0.703

202

Mitali Alurkar & Luke Santorsiero

0.694

203

Sam Cooper & Alex Bae

0.689

204

Charlie Alpert & Isaac Cohen

0.688

205

Larry Xie & Chaitanya Sana

0.688

206

Sharzeh Jafferali & Alejandro Manso

0.685

207

Amartya Roy & Shaurya Kasi

0.678

208

Ben Rask & Connor Chun

0.676

209

Samay Nistala & Vedant Tripathi

0.676

210

Aahana Gupta & Ibrahim Abudagga

0.670

211

Graham Turk & Ike Turk

0.669

212

Ian Ngo & Julian Carlile

0.667

213

Andrew Wells & Elsie Kosobud

0.664

214

Sophia Xiong & Diya Bhootra

0.664

215

Kayla Kelberg-Gross & Eliana Kelberg-Gross

0.663

216

Saanvi Sudhakar & Aaditya Mishra

0.648

217

Pavanaj Gupta & Jocelyn Wu

0.643

218

Daren Hu & Felix Shaitelman

0.643

219

Ezra McCullers & Asa Hein-Martin

0.641

220

Leo Cheng & Ayub Ahmed

0.636

221

Liam Charest & Dylan O'Sullivan

0.634

222

Austin She & Iniyan Gokulkumar

0.630

223

Naitik Narang & Anya Hira

0.629

224

Saashiv Gupta & Sahi Popuri

0.620

225

Denis Biju & Neel Sisodiya

0.615